fix alias for cat (to preserve the default behavior) and added batlog

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 - Improve performance when color output disabled, see #2397 and #2857 (@eth-p)
 - Relax syntax mapping rule restrictions to allow brace expansion #2865 (@cyqsimon)
 - Apply clippy fixes #2864 (@cyqsimon)
+- Updated alias for cat (to preserve the default behavior) and added batlog #2870 (@nazdridoy)
 - Faster startup by offloading glob matcher building to a worker thread #2868 (@cyqsimon)
 - Display which theme is the default one in basic output (no colors), see #2937 (@sblondon)
 - Display which theme is the default one in colored output, see #2838 (@sblondon)

README.md

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ characters:
 
 By default, `bat` pipes its own output to a pager (e.g. `less`) if the output is too large for one screen.
 If you would rather `bat` work like `cat` all the time (never page output), you can set `--paging=never` as an option, either on the command line or in your configuration file.
-If you intend to alias `cat` to `bat` in your shell configuration, you can use `alias cat='bat --paging=never'` to preserve the default behavior.
+If you intend to alias `cat` to `bat` in your shell configuration, you can use `alias cat='bat --style=plain --paging=never'` to preserve the default behavior.
 
 #### File concatenation
 
@@ -162,6 +162,16 @@ batgrep needle src/
 ```bash
 tail -f /var/log/pacman.log | bat --paging=never -l log
 ```
+You can also add an alias `batlog` to read any logfile
+
+```bash
+alias batlog='bat --paging=never -l log'
+
+tail -f /var/log/pacman.log | batlog
+
+batlog /var/log/pacman.log
+```
+
 
 Note that we have to switch off paging in order for this to work. We have also specified the syntax
 explicitly (`-l log`), as it can not be auto-detected in this case.